Nanotechnology News

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Tech Watch: UNH chemistry breakthrough could lead to 'chameleon' camo and rollup TVs
Joining the race for nanotechnology discoveries, a research team at the University of New Hampshire in Durham has created the first stable derivative of nonacene, a new compound derivative that could be the key to flexible screens, high-efficiency solar panels and chameleon military camouflage outfits.

Friday, January 22, 2010

MIT, Harvard researchers discover nanoparticles to replace stents
MIT and Harvard University researchers, including Robert Langer and Omid Farokhzad, have found a way to repair arteries damaged by cardiovascular disease using nanoparticles called 'nanoburrs.'

Thursday, January 21, 2010

QD Vision adds $3M funding for its LED tech
Barely one month after reporting a $10 million venture investment, QD Vision Inc. says it has taken in $3 million from DTE Energy Ventures to help expand the market for its technology for LED lighting and displays products.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Nanotechnology may spark next New England manufacturing revolution
The tiny parts used in nanotechnology-based manufacturing have the potential to bring a big boost in jobs to the Bay State, sparking a manufacturing renaissance that brings to mind the heyday of the textile industry.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Out after '09, In with '10
Mass High Tech staff members offered up their thoughts on which trends and technologies can fade away, or at least step back from the podium, with the passing of 2009, and what to watch for in the new year.

Monday, December 21, 2009

UMass Lowell lands $4M for nanomanufacturing R&D
Following the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Defense Appropriations Bill on Saturday, the University of Massachusetts Lowell has announced it is slated to receive $4 million in federal funding for nanomanufacturing research and development in the defense industry.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Study: Software leads tech growth in Mass.
Technology company CEOs, industry group to officials and academia gathered at Communispace Corp. in Watertown this morning to listen to the findings from a UMass study on Massachusetts’ tech economy and to hear Gov. Deval Patrick’s keynote address on the state of the IT sector in the commonwealth.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

MHT All-Star Peter Antoinette: Nanotech explorer
Peter Antoinette, president and CEO of Nanocomp Technologies Inc., won a Mass High Tech All-Star award for 2009 in the field of nanotechnology. Find out how he got involved with nanotechnology.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

MassTLC merges MassNetComms into the fold
Mass Technology Leadership Council Inc. reports it is merging with the Massachusetts Network Communications Council, making a super-group of tech boosterism that now combines consumer and enterprise software, hardware, robotics, Internet commerce, network devices, network management and security software, and mobile software and hardware.
Nanocomp award extends bullet-proof armor contract
Nanocomp Technologues Inc. reports it has been awarded an extension to a deal with the U.S. Army to develop lightweight body armor from carbon nanotubes.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Nano-concrete idea cements win in MIT pitch contest
A materials sciences startup named Nanoengineered Concrete, an entry in the energy category, won MIT’s 2009 Elevator Pitch Contest, besting 354 competitors in a contest that lasted three days.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Yale's Hong Tang lands photonics research grant
Yale University photonics researcher Hong Tang has won an $875,000 grant from the Packard Foundation. Tang’s photonics research focuses on using optical forces to activate motion in nanoscale systems. He is trying to use the weak force exerted by ordinary light to manipulate components of silicon chips.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

UMass Lowell targeted to receive $4M towards nanomanufacturing R&D
The U.S. Senate defense appropriations committee has approved $4 million to develop the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s nanomanufacturing research project. The project, backed by Sen. John Kerry, has $2 million earmarked from the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

NSF grants $12.3M to joint nanoscale engineering center
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Manufacturing , a joint venture among the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, has landed $12.3 million from the National Science Foundation, according to UNH officials.

Friday, August 21, 2009

NanoSteel nabs $8M in new funding
Nanotech-based coatings company NanoSteel Co. Inc. of Providence, R.I. has taken on $8 million of a planned $11 million funding round. The company has now taken approximately $20 million in venture funding since its founding in 2002.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Canaan backs nanomedicine firm Liquidia
Canaan Partners has co-led a $7 million, Series C round of venture capital in Liquidia Technologies Inc., a Durham, N.C.-based company that uses nanotechnology to improve drug design and delivery. Joining Westport, Conn.-based Canaan to lead the new round was Pappas Ventures of Durham, N.C.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Cerulean socks away $10M, names Ryan as new CMO
Nanotech-focused Cerulean Pharma Inc. has closed a $10 million Series B-1 funding round, featuring participation from existing investors Polaris Venture Partners of Waltham, Bessemer Venture Partners of Wellesley, and Venrock and Lux Capital, both of New York.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Bhatia, Best, Kivel join Aura Biosciences advisory boards
Aura Biosciences, a Cambridge-based biotechnology company focused on new drug delivery methods, has added three Boston-area advisors to its leadership team.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Cerulean Pharma, Calando sign drug delivery licensing deal
Cerulean Pharma Inc., a biopharmaceutical firm in Cambridge, has teamed up with Calando Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a licensing agreement over Calando’s cyclodextrin drug delivery technology.
Nanotech researcher Mirkin named 2009 Lemelson-MIT winner
Chad Mirkin, director of Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology, has won the $500,000 2009 Lemelson-MIT Prize, awarded to outstanding mid-career inventors, for his work in health care-related nanotechnology, according to the Lemelson-MIT Program.